Software Engineering Team Lead, Developer Tools
ECAD Labs Inc., Canada
Job Description
We are looking for an Engineering Team Lead to help us work on the future of developer tools for the Tezos blockchain. When creating open-source tools for Tezos application creators, we focus on a rich developer experience, clarity, productivity, and satisfaction while providing reliable, high-quality products.
If you love technology and using it to solve complex problems, have an interest in developer products or blockchain, we want to hear from you!
In this role, you will help us ideate, implement and launch new product opportunities that brings the Tezos developer experience to a new level. You will lead the engineering team to create elegant solutions to user problems through design, implementation, testing, documentation, and launch. Post-release, you will use new learnings to iterate, creating an even larger impact, investigate and correct issues.
As part of this role, you will work on new open-source blockchain developer tools, have the opportunity to learn and stay on top of emerging standards in the blockchain space and engage with users directly.
You will be part of a small team whose core values include offering a safe environment to be yourself, share your ideas, and provide your perspective.
Your Responsibilities
- Help driving meaningful outcomes for the business by building, maintaining, and enhancing developer tools to create the ultimate experience for developers
- Engage with our developer users in community forums
- Software design and architecture: Ability to analyze alternative designs to solve the same problem, assess pros and cons, and suggestions
- Implementation: Working alongside product management to co-create product requirements, then transform them into high-quality developer tools through collaborative design, implementation, testing, and documentation.
- Software quality: Reinforce the quality and stability of production-level code through design, unit testing, code reviews, and collaboration with other team members on test strategy, its implementation, and improvements
- Refactoring and technical debt management: Ensuring a healthy codebase, proactively adding architectural improvements to the product to maintain scalable and maintainable software.
- Coaching and mentorship: Be a technical sounding board for more junior team members, coach them on technology and engineering best practices
Location
Our Vancouver office, fully remote within Canada, or a blend, whatever works best for you!
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Requirements
- Professional advanced TypeScript experience, or strong experience with Java or C# with a keen interest to become an expert in TypeScript and languages specific to Tezos blockchain development (LIGO, SmartPy, etc.)
- Knowledge amp; curiosity of computer science fundamentals (type systems, data structures, algorithms, state machines, etc.)
- Practical understanding of Public Key encryption and its use-cases in the blockchain domain
- Eager to prototype an idea and learn from past experiences
- Have the ability to reflect upon past choices and act upon those reflections.
Bonus:
- Experience in working in open-source
- Blockchain experience
- Python, Go, ReasonML, or OCaml experience
Benefits
- Employer funded extended health and dental benefits
- Maternity/Parental leave top-up benefits
- Cryptocurrency vesting bonuses
- Internal start-up incubator
- Remote, in-office and hybrid work environments
- Opportunities for professional development including conferences, seminars, and educational courses
Annual Salary
$90,000 - $130,000